Greg Davies breaks the news

Man Down is to return to Channel 4 for a third series, star Greg Davies has revealed.

He broke the news in a tweet this morning, saying: 'Hello there, really chuffed to let you know that 'man down' will be back for a third series next year.'

The second series aired in June and July this year, despite the blow of losing Rik Mayall, who played Davies’s fictional father – with Stephanie Cole joining the cast as the battle-axe Aunty Nesta instead.

This second run started with 1.17million viewers, according to overnight figures that don’t take catch-up viewers into account, but ratings had declined to 780,000 by the final episode.

Nerys Evans, Channel 4’s deputy head of comedy said: ‘We’re delighted to have Greg back with the Man Down team. We are in awe of quite how many utterly humiliating situations he’s willing to put himself through for the love of comedy. But we’re definitely in no mood to ask him to stop.’

Davies added: ‘I’m so thrilled that Channel 4 want me to spend the next sixth months locked in my home crying over a keyboard in my pants. The characters in Man Down series three are really going to pay for their generosity…’

The six new half-hour episodes will air next year.

Man Down – which Davies co-wrote with Stephen Morrison and Sian Harries – also stars Mike Wozniak, Roisin Conaty and Gwyneth Powell, and is made by Avalon TV.

Hello there, really chuffed to let you know that 'man down' will be back for a third series next year.

— Greg Davies (@gdavies) October 1, 2015

The news comes on the day that E4 confirmed that it was commissioning a full series of co-star Conaty's sitcom Game Face.

Last week, broadcaster Dave also announced that Taskmaster, the challenge show that Davies hosts with Alex Horne would be returning for two more series.

Published: 1 Oct 2015